The solution? Buy a Xbo*gets shot*

My solution - use one save file ...70 hours in now and it's running completely fine.

FU Lag!!

GOOD thing i just bought the 360 version. It will come with its fair share of bugs but I SURE AS HELL know that there will be no lag. Selling my ps3 version.

I've done this and every other possible quick fix solution the lag/frame-rate issue still happens. Even when I've turned off all auto saves on rare moments like last night on quest The Caller. The game froze for min or 2 and than auto-saved and all the auto saves feat were turned off before it happend

I've always turned the majority of the autosaves off.. I tend to keep the fast travel one on...

because when you start making more then 1 character the autosaves and shit can get real confusing

Try copying your save to a memcard, then wiping your savedata from your PS3 (along with any corrupt garbage). Clear up any other junk you don't need on your PS3 while you're at it. Then copy the file back from the memcard.

That may clean up any fragmentation issues the file was having, and the autosave might be much faster -- and possibly not interfere with world data streaming (i.e. "lag").

The same trick might work with the installed 360 game -- or using the built-in flash memory to save, while installing to HDD might work.

By the way I just tried this with Fallout 3 GOTY on the PS3 and it actually worked, it cleared the godawful lag. Just disable the 3 autosaves options in the settings.

Also apparently if you hit start and the save and load options are grayed out for a second or two, you have to let the game "install" itself in the background while the game is paused (last maybe 30 minutes or so?), so go read a book.

It really help with the unplayable state that it was, the lag made the game crawl to a halt . I can finally finish the damn game, and no thanks to Bethesda. Guess who is not buying Skyrim GOTY new?

Cheers

Eh, I'm gonna wait for patches. Auto save is super handy. I'd forget to save manually otherwise. Plus, saving manually all the time would be really tedious.

My game hasn't bugged out at all yet so hopefully by the time I get to the point at which it might, Bethesda will have released enough patches to make it a non-issue...

It's annoying. When the patch came out, most of my lag was outside of dungeons. Now I've experienced it inside as well. I've come across these "rare" backward flying dragons (actually one's stuck doing the "FLYIN' MAN" next to the mountain. If I try to kill them once they're nearly dead they fly up and up until they vanish. Weird.

But anyway, I have to reset my PS3 every hour before lag consumes the whole thing... and Load times are getting longer and longer. SIgh.

Also when doing the Legion missions I"m told "here's a blade for ranking out" then it says *steel shield added*

WTF? I reloaded it like 10 times and all I get are shields? For real? Weird.

"why did they choose to release the game for the console which such a major problem being left unsolved?"

Seriously?

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DUH!

LMAO. I see people still getting fooled with all these neat tricks. They don't work. These fixes have been going back since Fallout 3 and they don't work. Yes turning off autosaving will stop the few second freezes the game takes when Auto saving but from experience be prepared to loose a few hours of gameplay here and there because you forgot to save and your game froze. That trick doesn't stop lag and anyone at bethesda will tell you save files is nothing to do with it.

So far I've heard people saying its your PS3s cache and doing a hard drive defrag works. Guess what I tryed it and nope. Then people say buy a better hard drive that reads faster cause thats the problem, nope I bought one last year that loads Gran Turismo 5 20 seconds faster than the original Hard Drive that came with the PS3 and my game still lags.

Starting new games doesn't work, deleting game data doesn't work, corrupt saves have nothing to do with them because the game doesn't load them and them sitting on your hard drive doesn't affect the game. Its all BS. This is a PS3 Ram problem because Bethesdas engine isn't built properly for the PS3. Remember why FF14 is delayed nearly 2 years on the PS3 and how the devs blame the Ram or how Sony said Cross game chat isn't possible on the PS3 due to ram limitations.

Then think of how PC games play when you have the minimum amount of ram the game allows. The problems with the amount of information the game tries to run at the same time. In Skyrim I could have 50 dead bodies lying on the ground with items I put on their corpses and wait 1 week in game time and travel back to those dead bodies and the game still remembers they are there along with the items I stored on their bodies.

If Bethesda cut the amount of things this game needs to remember then we wouldn't see these freezes. Hench why dungeons don't lag on long term gmeplay games

I had only save on travel activated, and then after this thread I decided to remove that one too, after i did game plays almost without any frame-rate drops. I have over 10MB save, I don't know how auto-save being activated and not saving every 5 seconds or something, could slow down a game. The saving pre-preparation processes should not slow down that much.